NTT Security: Optimizing MSS with the Full Security Life Cycle Approach

Kazu Yozawa, Regional CEO, Japan

As technology evolves, protecting sensitive data is getting harder—leaving entrepreneurs to look for apt ways to eliminate complexity and maximize IT efficiency to focus solely on business. Organizations are continuously spending more resources, time and energy towards securing their sensitive data. However, to avail security expertise and lessen the workload of security staffs, an absolute managed security services with apt supplemental preparatory and integration options is inevitable. Addressing these challenges and offering cyber resilience is NTT Security—enabling organizations to build high-performing and efficient security, risk, and compliance management programs.

NTT Security along with its sister concerns—NTT Data, NTT Communications, and Dimension Data has been delivering efficient and effective security, risk and compliance solutions to organizations around the world. Perceiving that business goals and objectives, risk tolerance, and compliance burdens are specific to each organization, NTT Group has created a Full Security Life Cycle model. Using the Full Security Life Cycle approach, NTT Security offers custom made services to suite organizations specific needs, with regards to Managed Security Services (MSS) by and for cloud services or a custom hybrid solution.

NTT Security’s managed security services are provided using Global MSS Platform (GMSSP) and built by their Security Engineering and Research Team (SERT). Based on advanced analytics, correlation, and detection powered by Global Threat Intelligence Platform (GTIP), the company automatically shares the information with all its members’ of 10 globally distributed Security Operation Center(SOC), helping them deliver advanced security solutions.

NTT Security provides the necessary services to the entire information and communications technology and throughout the Full Security Life Cycle

NTT Security’s direct implementation helps analyze the benefits and drawbacks of a company to decide which features to use. Ranging from risk mitigation to compliance and vulnerability assessments, continuous 24/7 monitoring and detection of cyber threat. NTT Security’s risk assessment and security planning and optimization services allow identification of specific activities in regards to the client’s business goals. The company’s customized solutions towards risk tolerance and compliance burdens, not only allow faster and easier sharing of information, but also leverage utilization of new technologies. The top-level analysts and professional services team interacts with their clients to give an immediate response, with the help of advanced analytics.

NTT Security has real-time detecting, responding and remediation capability that fulfill the gap or drawbacks of technology vendors in the field of intrusion prevention, protection, and endpoint security. Being, one of the largest ICT companies, NTT Security has a global honey-net infrastructure for collecting attackers’ information and visibility into the latest Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTP) attackers are using. Moreover, the firm has created a Global Threat Intelligence Platform (GTIP) that allows NTT Security Engineering and Research Team (SERT) members across the globe to collaborate to identify actionable Threat Indicators (TI) that are used by NTT Security’s MSS to protect clients’ assets.

The company’s latest addition is their behavioral analysis that detects any abnormal behavior within the organization. This solution is essential not only for the cyber security, but also the Operational Technology based cyber security. Further, NTT Security will be seen venturing more into detection technology by making use of advanced security mechanism like AI.